Reflective Task- Malcolm

Practice reflective Task – In Role as Malcolm, Consider the Understanding you have gained of the “Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair Motif”


What have you learned?

How did you learn it?

What are the implications for you of the outcome of the play?



For the past year everyone around me has been acting as something they are not. I personally have been exposed to the idea that fair is foul and foul is fair by people that are close to me. I have learnt that people are sometimes not who they say they are and people act differently to gain power and fulfil their desires. I will no longer trust anyone and I will find my own way to recognise whether they are acting or not. My dad was tricked and now he is dead because Lady MacBeth and MacBeth were hiding the deed they were planning. They hosted him and were to everyone a trustworthy normal couple but those two tyrants led life by fair is foul and foul is fair. MacBeth wanted to be king and Lady MacBeth wanted power. I was so careful of people ever since my father died. Even when Mac Duff came to me and asked for support, I was extremely iffy to talk to him. For all I knew he could have been on Macbeths’ side and wanted to kill me. So I tricked him and as I said before found my own way to see if he was here for actual support or to murder me too. Now that I am king, I have to be more careful than my father was because people want to be me. I will have to act this way to test whether the people around me are fair or foul. I see being king as being privileged and having the opportunity to run the country like it should be, I don’t want to be king just for ultimate power. I will be hesitant to go or stay anywhere. This position will not allow me to do several things, but my dad would be proud and it is better than tyrant MacBeth running this country down into the ground.